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Manager, Project ControlsWSP Canada • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Manager, Project Controls

Manager, Project Controls

WSP Canada • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$147,500.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
What if you could redefine what's possible? With us, you can.

With us, you can. You want Purpose. Growth. Opportunity. People who get it.
We are the home of ambitious, passionate, and innovative world shapers.
With an unmatched breadth and depth of engineering, advisory and science-based expertise, our global minds unite to power local solutions.
We are pathfinders and impact makers.
We are Visioneers.
We are WSP

The Opportunity - Build the Future with Us

As a Project Controls Manager within our Transportation Systems - Rail & Transit team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping some of Canada's most complex and transformative infrastructure projects. Reporting to the Director, Project Controls, you will lead project controls excellence across major rail and transit programs-driving financial discipline, schedule certainty, risk visibility, and informed decision-making that enables successful delivery.

Your Impact
  • Lead project controls functions across major, complex Rail & Transit programs, ensuring cost, schedule, and scope alignment
  • Establish strong project governance and act as a trusted interface between clients, project teams, and internal Project Controls leadership
  • Drive budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, earned value management, and financial reporting with accuracy and insight
  • Develop, manage, and maintain baseline budgets, schedules, and work breakdown structures to control hours and expenditures
  • Identify risks, opportunities, and deviations early, proposing practical mitigation and recovery strategies
  • Lead WBS and project coding structures in Primavera P6, collaborating closely with planners and schedulers
  • Prepare and present clear, concise operational reporting to senior and executive leadership to support strategic decision-making
  • Review and approve client billings, track payments, and oversee sub-consultant financial performance

The Skills That Set You Apart
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in Project Controls Manager or Project Controls Lead roles
  • Proven experience delivering major, multidisciplinary, complex infrastructure projects, ideally within Rail & Transit
  • Post-secondary diploma or degree in project management, finance, business, or a related field
  • PMP designation (required)
  • Advanced expertise in Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and project cost estimating tools
  • Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
  • Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, balancing multiple priorities amid change and ambiguity

Why Choose WSP?

We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. The brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe call WSP home.
  • Proudly Canadian - we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026
  • A global community of brilliant minds - your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach
  • Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it's across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition - because your growth drives ours
  • Flexible work, real balance - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours

#WeAreWSP #2016rail

Compensation
AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $147,500 - $195,400
MB & ON: $134,600 - $184,600
NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $133,200 - $176,900

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Discover how you can make a lasting impact at WSP-where your expertise helps move communities forward.At WSP, we exist to shape communities to advance humanity.

It's why we bring people together who are wired to solve complex challenges - engineers, scientists, advisors, and technical experts who are driven by a common passion - to redefine what's possible and shape what comes next. We are Visioneers.

As one of the world's leading professional services firms, we partner with clients across transportation, infrastructure, environment, buildings, energy, water, mining and metals. We pair deep local knowledge with global insights to pioneer solutions designed to leave a lasting, positive impact.

At WSP, you'll join a community of brilliant minds that push boundaries every day - applying deep expertise and fuelling innovation to help create a more connected and resilient future. Here, your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and you are encouraged to bring your authentic self to work. We empower our people to collaborate across disciplines, challenge the status quo, and shape a career with purpose.

Join us.

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations. Full details here .

Some safety-sensitive positions involve fieldwork and may include work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Full details here .
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